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Teradata’s Reema Poddar on taking risks and learning

Reema Poddar of Teradata heads up the company’s technology and innovation office and looks after the information security. She tells Toni Sekinah about the women she admired in the technology and business worlds, what she does to make sure the customer comes first and how she encourages diversity in her organisation.
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Start here: Now implement your data strategy

[…] So where do you start? You need a plan! First, you need to develop your plan. Your data strategy impacts right across your organisation, embracing your data, technology, people and processes. Your plan needs to cover all these areas: Policies and processes: You’ve most likely included your data principles in the data strategy which […]
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How analysts are changing football

[…] coaches and players, Bielsa’s meticulous approach was stifled and the Argentines were sent packing in the group stage. The acceleration came later in the 2000s when player-tracking technology was developed. The technology is now widely available in different software packages. It uses pitch side cameras and GPS-tracker vests to output thousands of data points […]
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Oliver Smith – Telefónica’s healthcare moonshot and dreaming big

[…] scope? Of course. Alpha is Europe’s first “moonshot factory”. That means we’re an innovation facility that tries to solve big societal problems by using breakthrough research and technology. We were created by Telefónica in 2016 and I lead on strategy for our health moonshot. A health moonshot sounds like you have in view a […]
What Does It Take to Lead Data, AI, and Cultural Transformation in 2026?

What Does It Take to Lead Data, AI, and Cultural Transformation in 2026?

[…] Director of Data & AI, British Gas; Tom Spencer, Director of Customer Data Sciences, Aviva; Sarah Barr Miller, Director of Data & AI, British Airways moved the conversation of transformation beyond technology. The real story was about knowing where AI genuinely matters, where it does not, and how to move organisations forward without being carried away by the […]
Stop Explaining Agentic AI — Start Implementing It

Stop Explaining Agentic AI — Start Implementing It

[…] Work, agrees: “The moment for theory has passed. We’re seeing clients re-architect their businesses around agentic systems—and the gains are material. If you’re still waiting for the technology to mature, you’re already behind.” From Concept to Commercial Impact Agentic AI may still be an emerging category, but its core traits—autonomy, goal-directed behaviour, and […]

Build and future-proof your skills with DataIQ Leaders

If data and technology are creating what has been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution, then data and analytics functions (D&A) find themselves right at the heart of this transformation. This article maps the skills you need now and in 2020 against the DataIQ Leaders programme to help you find the resources to equip yourself.
Randy Bean, Knowledge Expert and Business Advisor for North America, DataIQ.

2025 AI and data leadership – Executive benchmark survey leadership, transformation, and innovation in an AI future

[…] AI, foreseeing significant opportunity for productivity and efficiency gains. Some firms are looking at AI as a growth engine. Most executives view AI as the most transformational technology in a generation, with the potential benefits clearly outweighing the potential risks. Participation The 2025 survey is characterized by the largest and most diverse participation […]

“No ivory towers” found on OS map for data knowledge sharing

[…] is also related to interfacing with the senior directors of the company as well as planning, controlling and managing multiple projects. The second is about integration with technology. As data requires its own technical builds and tooling, it is important to think about how to integrate with the technology function that existed in the […]

Profiting from the complete view

[…] to give a rounded understanding of how to change up. Change may be a constant in the business world, but it plays havoc with data models and technology infrastructures. So getting the vision right makes a difference because it can avoid being sidetracked by downstream problems. Equally, delivering against that vision is easier if […]
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Why good data governance is central to building a successful modern business

[…] migration to the cloud and normalised remote working. Organisations are now increasingly disparate and dependent on digital technologies for even the simplest of tasks. Split responsibilities Beyond technology and regulations, the biggest challenge businesses face is operational. Across every enterprise, responsibility for governance has split. At leadership level, this was once the sole domain […]

HR/AI = (-x) – The employment/automation equation

[…] reason for replacing human workers with automated replacements, a deeper current is driving the same trend that is not the result of political decisions, but those of technology companies and their clients. Unlike Brexit, however, there is no opportunity for the public to express an opinion and influence the choice. Instead, there is a […]
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Maintaining Possession: Examining the growth of data in football

[…] the uptake of data offices in professional football has been slower. To take us through the developing world of football data, Luke Stopforth, head of data and technology at Brentford FC sat down with DataIQ to discuss the ways in which Brentford FC helped add momentum to the adoption of data offices, how data […]